Word: tales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...POOR NUT- An artless tale of undergraduate days wherein the Phi Beta Kappa man turns out to be a gorgeous athlete...
...ears with braids from his chin and decked his hat with blazing brimstone. Also, there are the two extraordinary prototypes of the bobbed-hair bandit, Pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny, who successfully combined marauding and maternity. Author Hurd selects a dozen of the sea-rogues, letting a good tale justify its telling. Author Seitz collects a murderous crew of some two-score?all there were to be found, one feels and touches off the exhaustive store of anecdote in a rare, quirky style that smacks tartly of 18th Century...
...McNeile ("Sapper")-Doran ($2.00). Melodrama being his métier, the author of Bull Dog Drummond fares only moderately well on the cramped stage of the short story. His happiest efforts are with humor and suspense, as Uncle James's Golf Match-a rib-splitter-and the titular tale of this collection, wherein a murder is averted by the veriest trifle. In other instances, suspense is fool's gold. The nugget of denouement fails to pan out. In still others- The Porterhouse Steak, about a starving but proud war hero; The Film That Never Was Shown, about...
When Jeremiah Smith, Jr., League of Nations Commissioner General in Hungary and possibly one of Boston's most distinguished citizens, appeared last week before the Council of the League (see Page 8), he had a fine tale to tell of Hungary...
THUS FAR-J. C. Snaifh-Appleton ($2.00). Rushing alongside the horny-hided thriller-reader, Writer Snaith delivers pointblank a tale about a scientist who grafted the fourth dimension upon the fetus of a high anthropoid. The offspring was nerveless, bloodless, sexless, deathless, supra-intelligent and psychic. Unforturfately, it was also sadistic and clawed out a number of people's carotid arteries, among them that of the scientist. Also unforunately, a very biological biologist and a very bemonocled amateur detective pile the book with slovenly heaps of "scientific" jargon, consisting chiefly of proper names that Writer Snaith looked...